The new Piaker Family Scholarship Challenge will expand undergraduate financial aid
This matching challenge will inspire a new wave of philanthropy and generate up to $3 million in student support....
University of Rochester Trustee Barbara Burger ’83 gives $2 million to support research, innovation, and the student experience
Burger's latest gift continues her legacy of philanthropy and engagement, establishes a new directorship, and launches a pilot undergraduate research...
Beth Sonnenschein ’61, ’62N establishes a $1 million endowed research fund in mathematics
Elizabeth “Beth” Sonnenschein ’61, ’62N has established the Hugo Freund Sonnenschein and Elizabeth Gunn Sonnenschein Research Endowment in Mathematics within...
Peter J. Landers ’83 (MS) and Kathleen E. Landers ’82 commit $1 million to support Strong Memorial Hospital’s Expansion Project
Rochester business leaders Peter J. Landers ’83 (MS) and Kathleen “Kathy” E. Landers ’82 have committed $1 million to support...
Navigating the first-gen experience: lessons learned and shared
The First-Generation Network connects students with alumni who have walked a similar path. ...
Show us your town: Tokyo
Visitors love the city’s temples, shrines, and gardens. They savor its sushi, noodles, yakitori, and many culinary delights. And they...
The Campus Times at 150
Since starting as the University Record in 1873, the paper known affectionately as “CT” has never stopped informing, entertaining, opining,...
From Unexpected Runner to Hall of Famer: Jackie Blackett ’81
For more than four decades, Jackie Blackett ’81—a Columbia University coach and athletics administrator—has been a driving force in women’s...
Celebrating a legacy in optics
A couple deeply connected to optics is enhancing the field’s future by endowing the Kidger-Moore Distinguished Professorship in Optics at...
Jazz, Comics, and the Search for Sound
Dave Chisholm ’13E (DMA) became fascinated with Miles Davis as a child listening to his parents’ jazz records. At 11,...